Williams tube: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)
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Encyclopedia: Williams tube
The Williams tube or (more accurately) the Williams-Kilburn tube (after Freddie Williams and coworker Tom Kilburn), developed about 1946 or 1947, was a cathode ray tube used to electronically store binary data.
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(Japanese) | ウィリアムス管 |
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(German) | Williamsröhre |
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). Originally designed to use RCA Selectron tubes for the memory, problems with the development of these complex tubes forced the switch to Williams tubes. Plans for the IAS machine were widely...
was the IBM 650. The system used electrostatic storage, consisting of 72 Williams tubes with a... to a maximum of 4096 words of 36 bits by the addition of a 2nd set of 72 Williams tubes or by replacing the entire memory with magnetic core memory. The tube memory access time was 30μs. The core...
IAS machine, was forced to switch to the Williams tube for storage, and RCA eventually had to scale... to build, and while they were more reliable and faster than the Williams tube, their cost meant they... large (5 inch by 3 inch) vacuum tube with a cathode running up the middle, surrounded by two separate...
included the use of core memory (instead of Williams tubes) and addition of three index registers. To...
multiplication was much slower. For memory the Mark I used two Williams tubes, each storing 64 rows of 40... pages. In addition to the tubes were two magnetic drums, which could store 64 pages (32 tracks...
forms: Williams tube Delay line memory Drum memory Core memory Twistor memory Bubble memory... used mercury delay lines, in which a series of acoustic pulses were sent along a tube filled with mercury. When the pulse reached the end of the tube, the circuitry detected whether the pulse...
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machine using both Williams tubes and drum memory, a machine known as the Atlas II computer. Work.... After the war they set up their own company under the direction of William Norris in a disused St...
Bubble memory Magnetic drum Memory stick Mylar® tape Paper tape Punch card Selectron tube Smartdisk Thin film memory Williams tube A list of memory-related software Aard QEMM...
required a fast memory system for realtime flight simulator use. At first, Williams tubes —a... systems using vacuum tubes as memory. Although the manufacture of core memory was never automated... amplification. By the 1950's, vacuum-tube electronics was well-developed and very sophisticated, but...
time of sound in a medium such as wire to store data) or by Williams tubes (which use the ability of... the Manchester Mark I computer which functioned as a complete system using the Williams tube for... possible with the advent of the vacuum tube. The era of modern computing began with a flurry of...
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